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Patent: Full-body teleportation system

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As much as the USPTO can be a total joke sometimes, this particular patent was rejected and marked as abandoned.

    Transaction History
    Date	Transaction Description
    12-06-2006	 Mail Abandonment for Failure to Respond to Office Action
    12-05-2006	 Aband. for Failure to Respond to O. A.
    04-27-2006	 Mail Non-Final Rejection
    04-26-2006	 Non-Final Rejection

See: http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair (Publication Number: 20060071122)

Basically this is just troll-bait because there was no reason to post it and people are voting it up based solely on the title -- a bad habit we're forming here.

Hm, you're right; sorry. In hindsight, this post would have been better suited to Reddit, as I posted it simply because I thought the patent's content would be fun to analyze, plus it was funny.

I didn't mean to say anything about the patent system itself, just this patent.

I guess he never came back from his last jump...

apparently the examiner tested the patent's claims and it resulted in only teleporting part of the examiner's body. he was not amused, and rejected it. before bleeding to death.

Google Patent's link is a bit cleaner: http://www.google.com/patents?id=6yqbAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...

Wait, you can patent things that may be implemented in the future at some point?

If so, the hard part is predicting things that will be invented in your lifetime, so that you can actually make money.

Wait, you can patent things that may be implemented in the future at some point?

Sort of. Patents are supposed to include some detail about how the invention works -- I think the test might be "enough to allow someone skilled in the art to practice the invention", but I'm not entirely certain. Whatever the exact test is, the point remains that you can't just say "I patent perpetual motion" -- you have to explain how a perpetual motion machine works.

That said, you don't have to actually have implemented the invention. You could get a patent on a new design of nuclear fusion reactor without having ever built such a reactor, as long as you describe it in enough detail.

A patent is only good for 20yrs from submittal, on September 29, 2024 this patent is voided, what a waste of $500, assuming he publish this patent.

I think I will file a patent on light sabers and reanimating corpses....

I want one. It sounds pretty fly.

IF that application was granted it would be the latest evidence that the USPTO is a joke.

IF it was rejected it would instead be the latest evidence that some humans are nuts.

I was under the impression that patent examiners aren't supposed to worry about whether an invention actually works. Since they can't possibly verify the efficacy of every invention they get, it doesn't make sense to try.

that would not surprise me, because based on many of the software patents they've granted they certainly don't seem to worry about whether something is novel or non-trivial

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